I don't do nothing I don't want to do.

I don't play a lot of fancy guitar. I don't want to play it. The kind of guitar I want to play is mean, mean licks.

I want to play music when I want, write a song if I want or watch a baseball game if I want.

I have heartaches, I have blues. No matter what you got, the blues is there. 'Cause that's all I know - the blues. And I can sing the blues so deep until you can have this room full of money and I can give you the blues.

I don't think about time. You're here when you're here. I think about today, staying in tune.

I hitchhiked, took trucks 'n' trains - anything that would pick me up. I stopped in Memphis for about six months and they found me and come got me. Stayed about a month an' split again.

I just get an idea and then all of a sudden I've got a song.

Oh, I still like to play and I still play when I want to.

I like dropping into a small club and playing with some people, trying to help them get a start.

I remember back in Detroit, I used to go to the Apex Bar every night after I got off work. The bartender there used to call me Boom Boom. I don't know why, but he did.

I went on to Cincinnati. I had got a taste of the big cities and them bright lights. I stayed there until I was about 18 or 19 and then I went on to Detroit.

I've got enough money to live me two lifetimes so I don't have to do nothing I don't want to.